11th October 2022, 12:44 PM
ABF, Activision-Blizzard are an evil company full of rampant sexual abuse that actively support China's expansionist policies. This is not an exaggeration. Every word I just used is true.
Is it any wonder, in the face of that, that they have not only INVENTED a mechanic specifically designed to prey on gambling addicts, but have now bloated the sequalspantion to that biggest of cash cows in their... crown... (Mixed simile sorry there) with every manner of exploitative unlock system invented since then? Is it any wonder they've FORCED it onto players? Is it any wonder at all that they are actively removing your rights regarding map content from past games that once embraced it (Warcraft III) or are gutting modes that didn't hurt them in the slightest and would have been both easy and cheap to simply keep in the code (local LAN play from Diablo II) simply (near as I can tell) to force players into their matchmaking system geared towards the particular dark pattern of forcing people into matches with players that buy all their microtransaction content as a form of advertising? That they've forced old offline games to be online-only such as their arcade collection of mildly enhanced SNES games?
We didn't know better when that very first sparkling pony came with a ridiculously bloated price tag back in World of Warcraft, bringing a practice from "free to play" into the "recurring fee" supported MMO space. There is no excuse any more. ABF, Activision Blizzard are not just part of the problem, they're innovators in the field. They are a bad corporation and the sooner you accept that and ditch them the better. They are not your friends. It will absolutely not get better. It will get worse. The line must be drawn here Picard reference blah blah blah.
Is it any wonder, in the face of that, that they have not only INVENTED a mechanic specifically designed to prey on gambling addicts, but have now bloated the sequalspantion to that biggest of cash cows in their... crown... (Mixed simile sorry there) with every manner of exploitative unlock system invented since then? Is it any wonder they've FORCED it onto players? Is it any wonder at all that they are actively removing your rights regarding map content from past games that once embraced it (Warcraft III) or are gutting modes that didn't hurt them in the slightest and would have been both easy and cheap to simply keep in the code (local LAN play from Diablo II) simply (near as I can tell) to force players into their matchmaking system geared towards the particular dark pattern of forcing people into matches with players that buy all their microtransaction content as a form of advertising? That they've forced old offline games to be online-only such as their arcade collection of mildly enhanced SNES games?
We didn't know better when that very first sparkling pony came with a ridiculously bloated price tag back in World of Warcraft, bringing a practice from "free to play" into the "recurring fee" supported MMO space. There is no excuse any more. ABF, Activision Blizzard are not just part of the problem, they're innovators in the field. They are a bad corporation and the sooner you accept that and ditch them the better. They are not your friends. It will absolutely not get better. It will get worse. The line must be drawn here Picard reference blah blah blah.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)